Book Description
The Bishop house had sat empty and decaying for as long as anyone could remember. Once the centerpiece of a large and thriving plantation, it had been the backdrop for one of the most shocking acts in the Revolutionary War. Six soldiers, fighting for America's independence, had been mercilessly hanged from the trees in its front yard, betrayed to the British army by the family's only daughter, Elizabeth Bishop.Was it her ghost--tortured by guilt and remorse--that appeared sporadically in the house, wandering from room to empty room, a single candle in her hand? No one knew for sure, but everyone agreed the house was haunted.When Emily Fletcher comes to visit her Aunt Becky in Virginia, an old woman she hardly knows, the last thing she expects to find is a ghost from beyond the grave. But Becky's house stands just down the lane from the Bishop mansion and from the moment Emily arrives she is thrust into a mystery over two hundred years old that slowly pulls her into its web of darkness, deceit, and betrayal.